Show Us Your Wood Shed

[Burnin Since 1991]

It would be more believable with pictures... But I guess there's no racks yet...

The title of the thread is "Show Us..."

Even if it's just a pile of gravel!

 

[ispinwool]

I just started the build for my firewood racks. I cannot have an actual structure due to HOA rules. Spread 2-tons of 1" clean gravel over 200 sq ft. ~ 6.5' x 30'. I have supplies to build 2-racks this weekend, hold a standard 1/3 cord. I should have enough room for 3 cords, This is all for the install of a ZC Osburn later this year, burn in the fall. I've got access to some dry wood now, already tested for moisture, and will be able cut my own. One rack of wood I have is too wet and will have to sit a couple of years.

"HOA rules"...I am 63 years old and I am s.t.i.l.l. unable to comprehend how/why total strangers should regulate or even care how I use my property! I hope HOAs will soon be a thing of the past and that you get to use your personal property as you see fit. (I have never lived in a HOA area...I just have a long history of cantankerousness..... LOL )

 

[Eman85]

I'm older and never lived with an HOA, but I can easily see the reasons for it. Not hard to understand the problems when some people take the freedom on their own property a little too far. Then you also have the property values and wanting to prevent the decline.

 

[GG Woody]

Some people thrive in an environment of rules, order, and everything being just as the rules state... I get it, I must be like that with some things, I just can't think of what or when?

 

[bigealta]

Some people thrive in an environment of rules, order, and everything being just as the rules state... I get it, I must be like that with some things, I just can't think of what or when?

Sounds like my neighbor, who was "very nervous' about my stacks burning down her house and, was i conforming to the town rules?
Or was it really that they are an eyesore in her mind?

Anyway the new fence they put up helps, Well will help burn down her house as it's cedar and only about 6Ft from her house.
That said i get along with them very well so all good in the hood here.

 

[Brawndo71]

Any outside structures would have to be approved, a pergola yes, but a storage shed would have to be matching the house and next to it basically. Freestanding racks would be fine, if i covered it with a roof would be likely be challenged. Too cold to want to work on it today, thinking I'll extend it another 18", need to do some rack test fitting so I can be 3 racks deep and still have airflow

 

[Brawndo71]

Well its a start. Found a guy on FB marketplace selling dry wood. Had to drive 35 miles to get it. 3 years in totes and under cover. I've got two different pieces sitting inside for moisture testing after splitting tomorrow. The wheelbarrow was light, they feel light and bang together like they should. I may buy up another load or two from him. The space needs to be 18" wider for three deep, and not be so close to the neighbors wall. I've got two racks built, but will go DIY with concrete block for next racks. Once I have enough for the first year I can get a larger delivery, still looking for a good supplier, or i go cut my own at relatives property

Wood from BIL stacked and covered for 3 years, its also dry, I tested a piece a few weeks ago.

The oak in this rack was too wet, need to test the other species. I'll relocate it to the main area and keep dry stuff next to the house.

 

[Brawndo71]

I tested the last purchase of wood, 13% moisture from two freshly split samples after inside for a day. I'll get more from that guy, he had at least 40 totes left or so, selling off what he had. Wish i had a trailer or truck. I won't have a wood problem next year, just user error. Looks like I will just cover the rack tops with a tarp, maybe each one individually, though a single 8' x 10' tarp per row will work also.

 

[Brawndo71]

Finally got 4 racks built. 4 deep after seeing i left too much room between them and extended the area. Three different designs, they are 2-4" apart now. I had to unstack, move and restack 1.5 racks. One metal rack is full next to house for quick access. I might try to build the next one more connected to each other, build in the garage or flat spot of yard and set in place. I've got more than one cord of dry wood, 9-13% moisture, picking up one last load from the same guy. But now he is out of this dry wood. Will buy a full cord from another supplier and have it delivered, let that dry for fall 2027. Now i can work on cutting my own at relatives place.

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

Finally got 4 racks built. 4 deep after seeing i left too much room between them and extended the area. Three different designs, they are 2-4" apart now. I had to unstack, move and restack 1.5 racks. One metal rack is full next to house for quick access. I might try to build the next one more connected to each other, build in the garage or flat spot of yard and set in place. I've got more than one cord of dry wood, 9-13% moisture, picking up one last load from the same guy. But now he is out of this dry wood. Will buy a full cord from another supplier and have it delivered, let that dry for fall 2027. Now i can work on cutting my own at relatives place.View attachment 346473

Well done! I was watching a you tube video from a guy that built 3 racks with 2x4 and concrete blocks like the left two rows.

I'm building some racks when the winter lets up and I will post my pics as well.

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[Brawndo71]

Well done! I was watching a you tube video from a guy that built 3 racks with 2x4 and concrete blocks like the left two rows.

I'm building some racks when the winter lets up and I will post my pics as well.

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I filled the concrete blocks with gravel to keep the posts upright, using the landscape timbers on the far left one. Trying to be tool free, its quicker. If I have to build 8 more racks, it has to be more efficient and permanent.

 

[bigealta]

Well done! I was watching a you tube video from a guy that built 3 racks with 2x4 and concrete blocks like the left two rows.

I'm building some racks when the winter lets up and I will post my pics as well.

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The one on the Left will roll the concrete blocks over time. The angled 2x4's will often lever them over at least partially with the weight of the top rows pressing against those 2x4's.

The other one with the roof looks much more secure but that metal roof looks like it wants to slice your jugular every time you put a split in or pull one out.

 

[Dieselhead]

I’ve been running these forever, use PT 2x4 and you are all set.

Stack-N-Store Brackets

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[GG Woody]

This pallet was hanging around work for too long 7'x9' (pretty sure it's an AI pallet being that size)
New overflow parking, game on!

Sheds full, took a pic so I could see how much a pile of green Douglas Fir shrinks. That's a 6' ladder on the right.

 

[bigealta]

This pallet was hanging around work for too long 7'x9' (pretty sure it's an AI pallet being that size)
New overflow parking, game on!
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Sheds full, took a pic so I could see how much a pile of green Douglas Fir shrinks. That's a 6' ladder on the right.
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I think at least 1 foot.

 

[GG Woody]

I think at least 1 foot.

I was thinking 10%

 

[AILDWarrior]

Here's my little woodshed project that turned into a much larger project as time went on. I stored my firewood in a shed logic tarp thing for a year and that was a major no-go, making this construction a necessity. The building layout is 16'x16', one half is the covered woodshed and the other half is an insulated home gym. The foundation is 9 screw piles and pressure treated rim, beam, and joist for the gym floor. Pallets provide the decking for the wood stacks. I figure when the shed is full, I get about 6 cords packed in there. Eventually, I'd like to make it really fancy and build a pressure treated floating deck for the stacked wood, but the pallets are free and work just fine for now. I know the soffit on the upper eave is heinously ugly; it was a last minute installation before winter set in to prevent wind-driven snow from entering my roof vents. When I get tired of looking at grey lumber, I'll probably finish the other three sides and stain it.

Sadly, the gym is not heated with a wood stove, I'm using a Chinese diesel heater (Lavaner 2kW) powered by an EcoFlow River. For the use-case it works great. The main reason I didn't go with a tiny wood stove is that the CDH and EcoFlow together cost less than the double-wall chimney required for a wood stove. And yes, for those who are overly worried about CDHs, I have a battery powered CO monitor in there and frequently test the air quality with a handheld CO meter as well

Please feel free to critique and address flaws as you all see fit; I'll cry privately in a corner so nobody has to see it.

 

[BigJ273]

No shed. But just finished stacking 2029-2030 wood. Two rows like that one.

 

[Ryan_C]

The first frost is already here, so now the hard work begins.
I tore down the woodshed, and now I need to build a new one. Hopefully soon.

 

[tsimms]

Here's my woodshed. I need 1 more roof panel and eventually I wrap 2x4s around it as well

 

[ajzzara]

The woodshed I built at my cabin in PA. The wood in the left bay has been drying for 2 seasons. The wood is stacked 3 deep each side and I use about a stack and a half per burning season . We finished tha basement and are replacing our old fisher with a Quadrafire Discovery 2. I think I may be burning more wood this winter now that the people are going to be in the basement more. We’ll see.

 

[BKVP]

 

[John Lehet]

I don’t think I’ve posted the shed I built this summer. It’s 7 x 16 ft, pretty tall at the front. I stack it pretty high using my tractor bucket to lift up to the top of the stack, and I can reach the bucket into the shed before the front blocks it. This is for ‘27-28 and beyond. My this-winter shed is at the end of the driveway, so the snow (vermont) gets cleared and I can wheel my cart up to it. I didn’t have room at the end of the driveway without blocking things up and getting in the way, to have more shed there. The trouble is that I’ll have to move this dry wood into the current-winter shed next year, more moving of wood than I would like. But I may be able to grab some of this wood when dry directly before the snow falls some years, and I also may be able to put wood directly into the driveway shed if I think it will dry fast enough there if there is space. The shed is a bit more full than when this photo was made — split more pine and butternut, and cut some ash. In the closer bay, a row of hard maple (already 12 months cut and split, mostly), a row of ash, and then the front and back unfortunately are pine and butternut. Took down very large pine and butternut trees this spring. Crappy wood, but I’m not going to throw it away.

 

[ExxWhy]

As I recall, this is 32X16. We stack 8 rows under there with a bit of space between them. Works out perfectly as we use right around 4 rows per winter. Once we get some space, it gets refilled right away so each side gets 2 summers of drying. We have a gasifier boiler, so it's a bit picky about it's care and feeding and 99.5% of our heat comes from wood. Mostly oak and some hickory. Winter of 2026-7 and 2027-8 in the bank! Collecting 2029 now.

 

[bigbuckshooter]

More of covered racks than a shed. I can pick them up with the tractor and put them by the basement door easy enough.
They’re all angle and c channel welded together with removed pipe for arms. And all heat treated for corrosion resistance. Been outside for 10 years now and still looking good!
Just got the woodstove installed and am anticipating burning somewhere between 1-3 cord a year depending on the winter. We have gas ran to the house so the furnace will stay low to mid 60s so only so much heat input needed. 4 racks is roughly 1 cord…so I’m hoping to have 5 cord split by the end of this winter to be ready for the next 2 years. Been loving the forum and all the info on here. Happy splitting and burning to all.